[Tutor] libtiff--can't find library

[Prasad, Ramit]

> Presumably this is a newbie question; apologies in advance, but I have spent
> hours trying to RTFM, to no avail. Can anyone help?
> 
> I've installed pylibtiff-0.1-svn.win32.exe since I want to be able to read a
> TIFF file. But when I type (in IDLE) I get
> >>>from libtiff import TIFFfile, TIFFimage
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>  File "<pyshell#1>", line 1, in <module>
>      from libtiff import TIFFfile, TIFFimage
>   File "E:\Python27\lib\site-packages\libtiff\__init__.py", line 4, in
> <module>
>      from .libtiff import libtiff, TIFF
>   File "E:\Python27\lib\site-packages\libtiff\libtiff.py", line 35, in
> <module>
>     raise ImportError('Failed to find TIFF library. Make sure that libtiff is
> installed and its location is listed in PATH|LD_LIBRARY_PATH|..')
> ImportError: Failed to find TIFF library. Make sure that libtiff is installed
> and its location is listed in PATH|LD_LIBRARY_PATH|..
> >>> import sys
> >>> print sys.path
> ['E:\\Python27\\Lib\\idlelib', 'E:\\Windows\\system32\\python27.zip',
> 'E:\\Python27\\DLLs', 'E:\\Python27\\lib', 'E:\\Python27\\lib\\plat-win',
> 'E:\\Python27\\lib\\lib-tk', 'E:\\Python27', 'E:\\Python27\\lib\\site-
> packages']
> Libtiff is in the 'E:\\Python27\\lib\\site-packages' directory as it's
> supposed to. So is, e.g., Numpy, which imports just fine.
> 
> What am I doing wrong? FWIW, I tried the PIL package, and had the same problem
> (module not found). Why do these modules not import when Numpy, matplotlib,
> scipy, etc. import as expected?

Just a shot in the dark here...

Maybe they were not installed properly? How did you install 
Python and the modules? Do you have more than one installed version
of Python? 


Ramit


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